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That is amazing, I spent a year in China and the characters were so hard. I would have to try this over a long time to see if it is better than hand drawings, b
by jbrun 18y ago
That is amazing, I spent a year in China and the characters were so hard. I would have to try this over a long time to see if it is better than hand drawings, but it seems pretty good.
How do you deal with radicals and learning related characters?
- nwinter 18y agoCharacter decompositions while practicing are planned, so when you write each radical or component it'll identify it and give you info on how the character is constructed. That'll take a while, though. We have a radical vocab list, but it's not that great. We don't have a way of linking related characters together. Haven't thought of any good ideas for it, yet.
- devin 18y agoI would consider linking characters by various criteria (the sound, the radicals, the meaning). In Chinese my experience has been that understanding the relationship between characters is not a science. What I mean is, I don't really care if you are giving me the perfect ancient etymology of a word or character so long as I am able to explore and relate characters in a way that makes sense to me.
- gsaines 18y agoYeah, definitely devin. What we'd like to do is create both a character decomposition system and a mnemonics system that would be seeded across users so that people can get the stories (and hopefully by association) the character lodged in memory. A lot of Chinese-English dictionaries have exactly this sort of organization.